Tweetdeck services taken offline after rapidly-spreading exploit

If are a big user of Tweetdeck, you might have noticed some issues with using those apps today. A security issue that was first discovered with the Chrome app version has since caused the app's owners at Twitter to shut down all Tweetdeck services to fix the problem.

The problem was first revealed earlier this morning, and it involves an XSS issue could cause hackers to execute code remotely on a user's PC as demonstrated by a slew of automatic retweets spreading rapidly across Twitter.